NUTRITION
NUTRITION ENERGY
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Question
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An animal that feeds only on other animals for energy.
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An animal that feeds on both animals and plants for energy.
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An organism that can make its own food using the sun’s energy through the process of photosynthesis.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A carnivore is an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals. Sometimes carnivores are called predators. Organisms that carnivores hunt are called prey. Carnivores are a major part of the food web, a description of which organisms eat which other organisms in the wild.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many carnivores get their energy and nutrients by eating herbivores, omnivores, and other carnivores. The animals that eat secondary consumers, like owls that eat rodents, are known as tertiary consumers. Carnivores that have no natural predators are known as apex predators; they occupy the top of the food chain.
Detailed explanation-3: -All members of the Felidae family: lions, tigers, leopards etc., and the domestic housecat (who shares 95% of their DNA with the Siberian Tiger!), are known as obligate carnivores.
Detailed explanation-4: -Obligate carnivores are also called hypercarnivores, which are animals whose diet consists of at least 70 percent meat. Hypocarnivores are carnivores that eat the least amount of meat. Mesocarnivores are animals that depend on meat for at least 50 percent of their diet.